117) How lab-grown diamonds are disrupting the diamond mining industry for the better with Alex Weindling
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
How do lab-grown diamonds compare in their environmental impact with conventionally mined ones? Given that some people rely on mining diamonds for their livelihoods, why do we still need to transition away from extracting these precious stones by way of mining?
Sharing his wisdom here is Alex Weindling, Founder and CEO of Clean Origin, a jewelry company which sells lab-grown diamonds. You'll hear about some of the major social and environmental issues involved in conventional diamond mining, how lab-grown diamonds are made, why this technology should render the need for mining diamonds obsolete, and more. Let's dive in!
HIGHLIGHTS
[5:04] Alex talks about what eventually led him to leave his family business in the conventional diamond industry.
[10:02] Alex: "Not only can we get them without ripping craters in the earth that are literally visible from the atmosphere, but we can make them more accessible to more people."
[15:39] Kaméa: "Do you think there is such a thing as sustainable mining?"
[18:03] Why the diamond mining today is becoming less and less efficient, using more resources for less yield of diamonds.
[19:52] How lab-grown diamonds are created.
[24:33] How transitioning away from mining diamonds will impact those whose livelihoods depend on it.
[28:49] Alex discusses what the best ways are to give our diamonds new life at the end of their life-cycles for us.
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| 0:54.0 | Many minds move as much as 57 tons of rock a year and create, I don't know how much |
| 1:00.8 | wastewater to get at these little stones. |
| 1:03.6 | And you don't need to do that. |
| 1:04.9 | So why would you continue the slaughter of the earth when we've found a way to get what we want with none of that. |
| 1:13.6 | How do lab-grown diamonds compare in their environmental impact with conventionally mined ones? |
| 1:22.6 | Given that some people rely on mining diamonds for their livelihoods, |
| 1:26.6 | why do we still need to |
| 1:28.0 | transition away from extracting these precious stones by way of mining? |
| 1:32.9 | That's just the tip of the iceberg of what you'll hear today. |
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